Tucker Carlson’s Dark Turn

National Review ^ | 7/24/2025 | JAMES KIRCHICK

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He can’t stop talking about the Jews.

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A survey of Carlson’s programming and rhetoric over the past several years, however, makes abundantly clear that he is indeed very much “obsessed” with Israel and the Jews. Carlson has devoted more time and attention to the Jewish state, which he portrays in a uniformly negative light, than to any other country in the world. He has suggested that Israel and its agents have been behind everything from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to the promotion of “white genocide” to the deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein’s supposed entrapment of the world’s most powerful men via the trafficking of underage girls. To listen to Carlson’s show is to come away with the impression that Adolf Hitler was misunderstood, that Israel is a country systematically murdering Christians, and that American Jews compose a bloodthirsty fifth column bent on conscripting their Gentile countrymen to fight Israel’s wars.

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Since Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, Carlson has become even more brazen in questioning the ethics and loyalty of American Jews. “How did Bill Ackman get so rich?” he asked attendees during an hour-long harangue at a Turning Point USA conference in July, before invoking one of the hoariest of antisemitic defamations. “If you’re getting rich by loaning money to people at incredibly high interest rates, that’s something you’re going to have to talk to God about.” (Ackman is an investor, not a banker.) In an agitated appearance on Steve Bannon’s podcast five days before Trump bombed Iran, Carlson rhetorically asked a Jewish-American commentator, “Are you even from here?,” described two Jewish-American media personalities as Israel’s “proxies in the United States,” and raged that Israel “blew up a church in Gaza with my money,” adding, “I’m a Christian, like, no, how about no?”

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The slave system was unproductive. The North was Capitalistic. The South was a federal system.

It worked well enough for agriculture but slavery is incompatible with industrialization and the South was starting to industrialize. Its days were numbered.

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You are dreaming.Anyway, it was GOD’S willthat the US stayed in tact If you don’t care for the US, you canzone to an island somewhere.

Yeah.....I'm not buying the whole divine intervention part. I have my problems with how the government operates now but I don't see a better choice. Individual rights are less respected in Europe.

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A REAL American thrills to the history of and loves the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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A REAL American thrills to the history of and loves the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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A REAL American thrills to the history of and loves the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

I do. The real history involves sovereign states and them never once agreeing to surrender their sovereignty or right to unilaterally secede when they ratified the constitution and joined a VOLUNTARY union.